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futile



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–adjective 
1. incapable 
of 
producing any result; ineffective; useless; not successful: Attempting to [force]-feed the sick horse was futile.  

2. trifling; frivolous; unimportant. 


 
Shame demonstrates the futility of [escap]ing the consequences of [war]. In 1971, the Rosenbergs, Jan (Max von Sydow) and Eva (Liv Ullmann), have retreated [to] an island off the coast of their unnamed country, which is embroiled in a civil conflict. 

Trained and employed as classical violinists, they make a modest living [raising] and selling lingonberries, though they continue to play their instruments.

lingonberry
【植】越橘


perfunctory 
His performance was perfunctory and [lack]luster.
felt fresh in those films, but here it just seems perfunctory and warmed [over]
feckless 
ineffective, incompetent, futile
feckless [attempts] to repair the plumbing. 
since feckless [dreamers] seem more alive onscreen than ordinary folk.
Languid